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• Could electricity come from the air?

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 484
  Researchers at the City College of New York are developing a new way to generate power for planes and road vehicles, which would source electricity from air flow. Using short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity, the researchers believe the power ...
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• Global Energy Holdings Group files Chapter 11 – Newsday

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Global Energy Holdings seeks Chapter 11 protection WILMINGTON, Del. - WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Global Energy Holdings Group, an Atlanta-based renewable energy company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. In a filing Wednesday ...
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• New Kind of Power Plant Gets Energy From Salt Water

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  A Norwegian company thinks it can squeeze enough electricity out of the natural phenomenon of osmosis to power China. Right now the company’s plant can barely heat a tea kettle, but officials hope to power a village in a few years, and a lot more after that. It works by separating seawater and freshwater with a ...
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• Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels , but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries. Read the rest of ...
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• Local Targets - Good for UK Renewable Energy?

  
  Wind Energy Planning — Authority: 118
  The Conservative party tell us they are all about local empowerment and ‘decentralised devolution’. Their decentralisation green paper ‘Control Shift’ released earlier this year set out proposals for change if they are elected next year. Conservative proposals include abolishing all planning and housing ...
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• Building a good working capacity NI Fe Battery.

  
  Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free — Authority: 167
  Ive been watching how to videos on the Internet and reading up on the old Edison type Nickel Iron batteries. There are loads of claims that they are superior to many of the modern types of rechargeable batteries. The problem is I am rather skeptical simply because what they claim Vs what I am seeing for actual ...
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• SOLAR LIGHTS UP THE CENTURIES

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  The origins of solar energy can be traced as far back as the 7th century BC.  The ancient Egyptians used the sun’s heat to bake straw and mud into bricks which they used as building blocks.Ancient Greeks and Romans recognised the benefits of what we now call passive solar design – using architecture to maximise ...
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• US Dept of Energy Investing in Small Business Renewable Energy Projects

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 119
  RenewableEnergyFocus.com, November 25, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund $18 million to support small business innovation research, development and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies, including projects to advance wave and current energy technologies, ocean thermal energy conversion ...
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• Mass. moves to streamline renewable energy efforts – WTOP Radio

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to streamline the states push for renewable energy. The new law transfers the states Renewable Energy Trust to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, creating a single agency ...
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• Power of osmosis used to deliver eco-friendly energy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A Norwegian firm is testing a renewable and emission-free source of energy that harnesses the power of water through osmosis The worlds first test plant to harness osmotic power, a new emission-free source of energy, opened on Tuesday, in Norway. Nestled amid pine-covered hills on the banks of the Oslo fjord, 60km ...
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• U.S. and Israel Grant $3.3 Million to Promising Clean Tech Companies

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 433
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of $3.3 million in grants for four U.S.-Israel cooperative clean energy projects. The projects were selected by the BIRD Foundation and will be funded by the DOE and Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructures. The four projects will leverage ...
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• World’s First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.
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• US Biodiesel Production Reaches Commercial Scale Thanks to Tax Incentives

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 496
  Enacted in 2004, the current biodiesel tax incentive program helps make the fuel competitive with petroleum based diesel. Unfortunately, the current incentive program will expire on December 31, 2009 at a time when “U.S. biodiesel production has reached commercial scale, and the nation has realized the job creation, ...
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• Renewable Energy Trust Moves to Clean Energy Center

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  energy , investment , Massachusetts Wade Roush wrote: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation this week that gives the Renewable Energy Trust , formerly a unit of the quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a new home: the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The Renewable ...
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• Its Finally Official - Indias National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar Power by 2022

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  photo: Ryan DSouza via flickr. Rumors and draft reports have been circulating about Indias National Solar Mission plan since early summer, but the program has finally been officially announced. Approved just in time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs visit with President Obama , the plan aims for 20 gigawatts on ...
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• Rethinking Clean Energy Innovation

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  With energy demand growing quickly, development of clean energy technologies cannot afford to be undertaken in silos, a new report says.
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• States Test Ways To Turn Consumers Into Producers

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  By Emily Vaughan Coming soon to a rooftop near you. Image Braemac Corp. Four states this year implemented feed-in tariffs, incentives that pay customers for the renewable energy they produce and “feed” back into electricity grids. Three did it for the first time, joining Washington state and California, ...
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• Freeing the Grid — Building Local Solar Markets, One State At A Time

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 433
  It’s that time of year again … no, not when turduckens appear on dinner tables nationwide and it becomes somehow acceptable to call the marshmallow a vegetable. It’s time for the 2009 edition of “ Freeing the Grid ,” an annual report card to states on their net metering and interconnection standards. ...
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• Sun Catalytix gets $1 million more for its breakthrough discovery

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  Sun Catalytix , a renewable energy startup that got $2 million in backing from Polaris Ventures Partners sometime back, will now get the benefit of an added $1 million, making their total investment $3 million. Professor Daniel Nocera made a breakthrough in 2007 with his work that dealt with finding out ways to come ...
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• Eco Tech: Electrorad fence doubles as a clean heating solution

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 129
  Eco Factor: System uses renewable sources of energy to provide a clean heating solution. Electrorad is a thermosolar fence consisting of many absorber pipes. These pipes contain thermal fluid running inside them. This makes it an excellent system that combines three natural energy sources, solar, ground and air. It ...
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